Level 3
General Professional Proficiency
| The candidate can understand and participate in discussions about: |
| *social, economic, cultural, scientific, and global issues |
| *professional reports and meetings |
| *particular interests |
| *special fields of competence |
| The candidate can: |
| *infer |
| *detect emotional overtones |
| *describe & explain in detail |
| *hypothesize |
| *give and support opinion |
| *handle unfamiliar and abstract topics |
| Candidate’s level of linguistic accuracy: |
| *doesn’t understand native speaker who speaks very rapidly |
| *rarely requests paraphrasing/ explanations |
| *some low-frequency structures evident |
| *control of Complex structure |
| *native speaker rarely requires repetition or rephrasing to understand or to be understood |
| *appears to be “thinking” in the language |
